Angst
Fear targets a definite thing; Angst has no object and discloses the nothingness of our finite existence.
Fear of snakes, spiders or airplanes always has an object; Angst is fear of nothing.
The image Shore uses for it, in our paraphrase.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Fear always takes an object: snakes, spiders, planes. Angst takes none; what it faces is precisely nothing, the nothingness every existence is inevitably headed toward.
Put simply Heidegger: fear is always of something, like snakes or planes. "Angst", a deep dread, has no object. What it faces is nothing at all: the nothingness every life is heading toward.
Where to read it Heidegger, Being and Time §40 (H. 186–189).
Angst brings Unheimlichkeit, uncanniness, literally not being at home. The world cannot be a secure home for an existence that, squarely faced, is ungrounded by its own finitude.
Put simply Heidegger: dread brings "Unheimlichkeit", usually translated "uncanniness" but literally "not being at home". Our lives will end and so have no firm footing; faced honestly, that means the world can never be a secure home.
Anguish is the price of responsibility: whoever commits to anything settles not only who they will be but, in effect, legislates for all humanity. Absolute freedom means absolute responsibility.
Put simply Sartre: whenever we commit to something, we choose not only who we will be but, in effect, set a rule for all humanity. Total freedom means total responsibility, and that weight is our anguish.
Sartre's anguish is a little different from Heidegger's angst: less connected with finitude and mortality, more with responsibility, the burden of choosing for all mankind.
Put simply Shore: Heidegger's dread ("angst") is tied to mortality and the fact that we will die. Sartre's anguish is tied instead to responsibility: the burden of choosing for all mankind.
The prestige Freud grants the penis needs an existential explanation, Beauvoir argues: anxious about his freedom, the subject seeks himself in things, an alienation that lets him flee himself.
Put simply Beauvoir: the special importance Freud gives the penis needs explaining from human existence itself. Anxious about his freedom, a person looks for himself in things, an "alienation" that lets him escape himself.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
HeideggerFear always takes an object: snakes, spiders, planes. Angst takes none; what it faces is precisely nothing, the nothingness every existence is inevitably headed toward. L12 · 41:22
HeideggerAngst brings Unheimlichkeit, uncanniness, literally not being at home. The world cannot be a secure home for an existence that, squarely faced, is ungrounded by its own finitude. L12 · 42:50
Anxiety about nothing produces the feeling of not being at home.
Terms that appear in the same claims.